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Side 22
... province , ( somewhere in the modern Transylvania , ) and , attracting to his wild encampment as many fugi- tives as he could , by degrees he succeeded in forming and training a very formidable troop of freebooters . Partly from the ...
... province , ( somewhere in the modern Transylvania , ) and , attracting to his wild encampment as many fugi- tives as he could , by degrees he succeeded in forming and training a very formidable troop of freebooters . Partly from the ...
Side 35
... province . With his usual caution , that no news of his motions might run before himself , on this night Cæsar gave an entertainment to his friends , in the midst of which he slipped away unobserved , and with a small retinue proceeded ...
... province . With his usual caution , that no news of his motions might run before himself , on this night Cæsar gave an entertainment to his friends , in the midst of which he slipped away unobserved , and with a small retinue proceeded ...
Side 53
... , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a body of mercenary partisans ; - kings are known to have taken his pay . THE CÆSARS . 53.
... , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a body of mercenary partisans ; - kings are known to have taken his pay . THE CÆSARS . 53.
Side 53
... , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a body of mercenary partisans ; kings are known to have taken his pay . And THE CÆSARS . 53.
... , equal in numbers to a nation . In the provinces , and in distant kingdoms , he pursued the same schemes . Every where he had a body of mercenary partisans ; kings are known to have taken his pay . And THE CÆSARS . 53.
Side 78
... as a means of delay for recovering from some else fatal defeat . It is certain that Augustus viewed Egypt with jeal ousy as a province , which might be turned to account in some such way by any aspiring insurgent . And 78 THE CÆSARS .
... as a means of delay for recovering from some else fatal defeat . It is certain that Augustus viewed Egypt with jeal ousy as a province , which might be turned to account in some such way by any aspiring insurgent . And 78 THE CÆSARS .
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Alexander Alexander Severus amongst ancient anecdotes army assassination Augustus Aurelian barbarians body Cæsar Caligula Caracalla Carus Cassius character Christian Cicero circumstances civic civil Commodus condition death Decius declension defeated Dioclesian discipline doubt doubtless effect Emilianus enemy express eyes fact father favor fear frontier Galerius Gallienus Gaul Goths grandeur habits Hadrian hand happened historians honors human nature imperial instance interest Julius Julius Cæsar king legions less luxury Macrinus Marcus Aurelius Maximin means memorable mighty military mode monarchy moral mother murder necessity Nero never NOTE notice Numerian occasion original palace party perhaps Persian Philip the Arab philosopher popular prætorian prince Probus prosperity provinces purpose rank reason reign remarkable republic republican revolution rival Roman emperor Roman empire Rome sacred seems senate sense Severus soldier spirit succession Suetonius supposed Sylla thousand throne tion troops true vast victory whilst whole writer
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Side 242 - Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread But as the marigold at the sun's eye; And in themselves their pride lies buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, Is from the book of honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.
Side 19 - Czesarean (so to speak) in their tone of moral feeling. Thus, for example, the night before he was assassinated, he dreamt at intervals that he was soarIng above the clouds on wings, and that he placed his hand within the right hand of Jove.
Side 54 - Men like Mark Antony, with minds of chaotic composition — light conflicting with darkness, proportions of colossal grandeur disfigured by unsymmetrical arrangement, the angelic in close neighborhood with the brutal — are first read in their true meaning by an age learned in the philosophy of the human heart.